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'By mine, replied Mr. Brownlow. 'Those persons are indemnified by me. If you complain of being deprived of your liberty you had power and opportunity to retrieve it as you came along, but you deemed it advisable to remain quiet I say again, throw yourself for protection on the law.
When I think of the good money he has wasted But then, sir, I am no politician. Colonel Clive and I are two ruined men; 'tis a somewhat strange coincidence that he and I are almost of an age, and that we both, before many weeks are past, shall be crossing the ocean once more to retrieve our fallen fortunes."
Never had Italian prestige fallen so low in the Levant as at this period, and the Italian Government did nothing to retrieve the situation. In Tripoli, above all, where Italy's reversionary interest had been sanctioned by agreements with England and France, the position of Italian citizens and firms was rendered well-nigh intolerable.
Naturally kind, generous, and social, he had sunk, at length, into the anchorite and the miser. All other speculations that should retrieve his ancestral honours had failed: but there is one speculation that never fails the speculation of saving! It was to this that he now indissolubly attached himself. At moments he was open to all his old habits; but such moments were rare and few.
The dwarf was marvelously quick, too, but the white flash of stone came near getting him and as he dodged he slipped and fell and the bust busted in all directions, one fragment cutting his cheek, with its sharp impact. "Look out, Jim! Look out quick!" so a friend would have cried but it was too late. While the men had all fled in utter fear, a woman was coming quickly to retrieve their reverse.
But, bethink you is there nothing in your thought which is worse than death, from the terrors of which, the pure mind, however fortified by heroic resolution, must still shrink and tremble? Beware, then, how you chafe me. Say where the youth has gone, and in this way retrieve, if you can, the error which taught you to connive at his escape."
The number of casualties incurred by the Germans was not known, but the French took twenty-two prisoners. During February 4, 1917, the Germans displayed intense activity, as if determined to retrieve their frequent failures since the month opened.
The plastic nature of man has in it an infinity of resources to retrieve the negligencies and repair the faults that she may have committed. To this end it is sufficient that the mind, the moral agent, sustain it, or even withhold from troubling it in the labor of rebuilding. It is this which Mendelssohn upholds.
"My husband shaves himself," retorted Alexandrine, with renewed dignity. "But his hair" ventured Espérance. "I cut it!" thundered her foe. Here Madame Sergeot made a false move. She laughed. Then, in confusion, and striving, too late, to retrieve herself "Pardon, madame," she added, "but it seems droll to me, that. After all, ten sous is a sum so small"
But he soon gets the idea and not waiting for the detonation of the gun, he accepts the hum of the bowstring and the whirr of the arrow as signals for action. Some dogs have even shown a tendency to retrieve our arrows for us, and nothing suits them better than that we go on foot, and by their sides can run with them and with our silent shafts can lay low what they bring to bay.
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